Sentences with phrase «schools narrow the gaps»

How Family Background Influences Student Achievement Can schools narrow the gap?

As a result, disadvantaged children prosper academically in Catholic schools, and the schools narrow the gaps among races and social classes.

If so, can law schools narrow this gap by tapping the skills of their law librarians?

Not exact matches

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

Ottawa's efforts to narrow the «skills gap,» including its controversial Canada Jobs Grant program, is driven by a belief schools are pumping out too many drama majors and not enough welders.

According to my interpretation of data from meta - analyses and a nationwide data set, both racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are 25 percent narrower in Christian schools than in public schools.

The College Board has long claimed its gold standard AP Program can help students succeed in college, narrow the achievement gap and level the playing field for traditionally under - served high schools and students.

«There is no evidence to show that the free schools model raises standards of education or that it will narrow the achievement gap between pupils from different ethnic groups.

The fairness case for levying VAT on private school fees is this: whenever # 10,000 is spent on private school fees, # 2000 would go towards narrowing the gaps in opportunity and mobility.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

Higher reading levels, fewer children skipping school, a narrower attainment gap - all because of the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

By supporting Grant Shapp's Right To Move policy, Iain Duncan Smith's proposals to end welfare dependency, George Osborne's raising of the personal allowance threshold, and Michael Gove's free schools - am I not supporting policies that will narrow the gap between rich and poor?

Concrete commitments to end child poverty and narrow the gap in schools should be Labour's central pitch to black and Asian voters.

The mayor noted the city had narrowed the gap in high school graduation rates between the races.

IDS is trying to reform welfare to reduce unemployment, and Michael Gove is trying to narrow the education gap, with his Free Schools and the «pupil premium» for poorer children.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new study.

Over the past few years, the districts profiled in the report — the Houston Independent School District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Sacramento City Unified School District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuSchool District, the Charlotte - Mecklenburg school system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white stuschool system in North Carolina, and the Chancellor's District in New York City, a special 25,000 - student district of low - performing schools — have improved test scores and narrowed achievement gaps between minority and white students.

In a foreword to the report, David Laws, executive chairman for CentreForum, said: «There is a risk that this policy may widen the attainment gap on entry to school, and cut across initiatives such as the Pupil Premium, which aim to narrow this gap.»

(10/8/09) Charter Schools Narrow Achievement Gaps in New York City (10/1/09) What Congress Is Not Working On (9/24/09) Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data (9/17/09)

«Importantly, the narrowing gap in reading achievement as students progress by year level suggests that the value - add over time that is experienced in coeducational schools is not being realised in single - sex schools,» Dix writes.

«I want to see our urban school districts and large charter networks play an even greater role in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»

Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school.

Those supporting the creation of charter schools still outnumber opponents by a 39 % -36 % margin, but the gap has narrowed dramatically.

In reading, it was the students in all - girls schools who were likely to outperform those in other schools (at all year levels), but the gap between single - sex and coeducational schools actually narrowed over time.

Anaheim, Calif — The narrowing achievement gap between black and white students, first reported about two years ago, is also beginning to show in college and graduate - school admissions tests, according to a new analysis of national data by the researcher whose earlier analyses first summarized the change.

Research on summer learning loss indicates that income - based gaps in student achievement tend to widen over the summer and narrow when school is in session, suggesting that low - income students have the most to gain from shortened summers.

In 2011, I noted that the narrow, relentless focus on «closing achievement gaps» had created «a dangerous complacency» by «giving suburban and middle - class Americans the false sense that things are just fine in their own schools.

International data are seen as «drivers» for national and local reform in terms of teacher qualifications, curriculum improvement, and sources of comparative information on narrowing the gaps and successful school management.

Peterson and Finn's previous podcasts: Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data What Congress Is Not Working On Charter Schools Narrow Achievement Gaps in New York City

Each school will be given grades in six areas: (i) pupil academic progress (gain scores); (ii) pupil attainment (of particular academic goals); (iii) the narrowing of gaps of high and low pupils in particular categories (low SES, minority, gender); (iv) parent opinions of the school's quality; (v) teacher and staff opinions of the school quality; and (vi) pupil opinions of the school quality.

An early - childhood - education program in Maryland is helping to narrow the school readiness gap between disadvantaged children and their middle - class peers, says a state education department report.

Encouragingly, there are signs that these interventions disproportionality benefit low attaining and pupils eligible for Free School Meals, and so could be effective approaches to «narrow the gap».

Although some have argued that a renewed emphasis on desegregation could help narrow the gap, a new EdNext analysis shows that over this same time period, schools have continued to become more, not less, diverse.

The standards - based reform movement seeks both to equip all of our high - school graduates to compete in the global marketplace and to narrow the achievement gap between our advantaged and disadvantaged student populations.

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

Day one provided conference participants with insight into why we can and must narrow achievement gaps, and ways in which our home and institutional lifestyles, as well as our schooling and public policies, affect achievement gaps.

After almost five years, the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act already has made a significant impact on U.S. schools, based on improved test scores and a narrowing of the achievement gap, according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Topics discussed were Measuring Achievement, Calibrating Gaps and Monitoring Progress; How Identity and Culture Affect Achievement Gaps; What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Schools; and What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Non-School Hours.

But the key to narrowing the achievement gap is high - quality literacy and numeracy interventions that are targeted towards pupils who are falling behind in primary and early secondary school.

From this, the Public Education Leadership Project — a collaboration of HGSE and the Harvard Business School — and the Achievement Gap Initiative — an effort to help study and narrow the achievement gap in education — were formGap Initiative — an effort to help study and narrow the achievement gap in education — were formgap in education — were formed.

A better one is to narrow the gap between learning to know and learning to do by creating these Meister High Schools that offer direct links to employment after graduation.

In addition to making schooling more personalized and productive, edtech may help narrow opportunity gaps, the editors write.

At a time when other federal and state policies are focused on achievement, school results, and the narrowing of learning gaps, why do we carve out a huge subpart of K — 12 education for a program that's still centered on inputs and services?

The district's schools have also narrowed the achievement gap in test scores, which NWEA MAP measures show are trending upward.

If school boards, superintendents, and local teacher unions put top priority on raising standards, narrowing gaps, emphasizing quality in the classroom and running world class schools, America wouldn't be where it is.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

The achievement gap between white and minority students also is narrower in DoDEA schools than in U.S. public schools.

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.